Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter ...
Subtitle: To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano.
Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald
Published: 1878
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Ballroom dancing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Dance music.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.; Music for Dance.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter
Description: This is a compilation by Dick and Fitzgerald of previously published sources on ballroom dance. Although advertised as a ballroom prompter, only one page is devoted to calling figures in a quadrille. The book contains rudimentary etiquette advice and dance instructions for numerous dances including the grand march, quadrilles, and contradances such as "Virginia Reel," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Spanish Dance," and "Sicilian Circle." Also described are various round dances such as the polka, polka redowa, modern plain waltz, Boston Dip, varsovienne, and galop. The manual concludes with 104 figures for the popular parlor game, the German (also known as the cotillon).
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images.
Music: p. 161-230.